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E3S Web of Conferences, 2017 Survival of microorganisms in soils from treatment facility and landfill of wooden railway sleepers contaminated with creosote oil as well as in two types of soils with different content of organic carbon, treated with creosote oil vapors, was assessed ...
Krzyśko-Łupicka Teresa +4 more
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Creosote growth rate and reproduction increase in postfire environments
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Human activities are changing patterns of ecological disturbance globally. In North American deserts, wildfire is increasing in size and frequency due to fuel characteristics of invasive annual grasses.
Rebecca Lee Molinari +5 more
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Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine, 2015 The medicinal properties of the most successful plant in the deserts of the western hemisphere, the creosote bush (Larrea tridentata), are evidenced by the long traditional usage of the plants by the Native Americans Indian tribes in Southwestern North ...
John Gnabre, Robert Bates, Ru Chih Huang
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Pyrolysis and Torrefaction-Thermal Treatment of Creosote-Impregnated Railroad Ties as a Method of Utilization. [PDF]
Materials (Basel), 2023 A fundamental issue of waste management and the rail transport industry is the problem of utilizing used railroad ties. Wooden railroad ties are treated with a preservative, usually creosote.
Kazimierski P +3 more
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Composition and Dissolution of a Migratory, Weathered Coal Tar Creosote DNAPL
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2016 Opaque, viscous tars derived from the carbonization of fossile carbon feedstocks, such coal tars and creosote, are long-term sources of groundwater contamination, predominantly with poly- and heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH).
Kerstin E. Scherr +4 more
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PUF-Immobilized Bjerkandera adusta DSM 3375 as a Tool for Bioremediation of Creosote Oil Contaminated Soil. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2022 Creosote oil, a byproduct of coal distillation, is primarily composed of aromatic compounds that are difficult to degrade, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, phenolic compounds, and N-, S-, and O-heterocyclic compounds.
Struszczyk-Świta K +3 more
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Forests, 2023 This study evaluated the effect of biodiesel as a co-solvent with the wood preservative creosote to reduce the amount of hydrocarbon-based carrier utilized. Small blocks of wood were treated at a pilot scale using three different creosote concentrations.
Kathleen Walker +5 more
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The desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida) induces a diversity of biotransformation genes in response to creosote bush resin. [PDF]
Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol PharmacolLiver biotransformation enzymes have long been thought to enable animals to feed on diets rich in xenobiotic compounds. However, despite decades of pharmacological research in humans and rodents, little is known about hepatic gene expression in ...
Greenhalgh R +5 more
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The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1898 n ...
Jacob, D.-R.-S. Paul, Nordt, Hans
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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2020 Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) contained in creosote oil are particularly difficult to remove from the soil environment. Their hydrophobic character and low bioavailability to soil microorganisms affects their rate of biodegradation.
W. Smułek +3 more
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